Academic Experience

He was professor of philosophy and  director of the Department of Political Science and Education at Anhui Normal University, chief editor of Journal of Anhui Normal University, visiting scholar of the Hegel Archive of Ruhr University, Germany, professor of the course on Philosophy and Culture in Luzern University, Switzerland, dean of the philosophy department of East China Normal University and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Now he is professor II of East China Normal University (granted a Special Allowance from the State Council), tenured professor at ECNU, and doctoral supervisor of Foreign Philosophy and Religion at the Department of Philosophy.

Adjunct Academic Posts

• Vice Chairman of the Academic Degree Committee of ECNU

• Head of Postdoctoral Mobile Station of the Department of Philosophy

• Director of the Institute of Hermeneutics

• Dean of Han Jing Academy

• Director of the Institute of Jue Qun Buddhist Culture at ECNU

• Director of the Teaching and Research Practice Base of Mount Putuo Buddhist Academy

• Director of the Joint Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences of East China Normal University and University Jena (Germany).

Academic Achievements

He has published a variety of monographs, including Ideogramm und Auslegung, which is in German; Introduction to Hermeneutics; Text, Hermeneutics, Tradition: Modern Transformation of the Tradition of Chinese Hermeneutic; History of Western Hermeneutics. He has translated Fichte’s German work Die Staatslehre / oder über das Verhältnis des Urstaates zum Vernunftreiche into Chinese, and Palmer’s work Hermeneutics from English to Chinese. He has edited more than 20 academic collections, published many Chinese, English and German academic theses and translations in the journals at home and abroad, nine pieces of which are published on Social Sciences in China. What’s more, he has won the Outstanding Achievement Award of provincial and ministerial level many times.